Roma Migration in Europe - Case Studies (Paperback)

The mass migration of Roma "from East to West," that is, their movement from Central and Eastern Europe into Western countries, became an international political problem in the late 1990s. This book, the result of cooperation by an international research network with members from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Great Britain, provides a collection of essays that attempt to identify the current situation and trends in migration in these areas. The contributions provide a brief historical account of Roma migration in the modern history of the region, and assess the scale and types of migration in individual countries, and the direction of migration movements and their causes. It is clear that features of migration strategies differ between different Roma groups in post-communist Europe, but the way in which they are received in the west is usually the same.